. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. RECENT DISCOVERY AND PRESENT STATE. 55 man also penetrated in 1793 across the Rocky Moun- tains, and rea


. An historical and descriptive account of British America [microform] : comprehending Canada Upper and Lower, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, and the fur countries, their history from the earliest settlement, the statistics and topography of each district, their commerce ... : to which is added a full detail of the principles and best modes of emigration. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Natural history; Sciences naturelles. RECENT DISCOVERY AND PRESENT STATE. 55 man also penetrated in 1793 across the Rocky Moun- tains, and reached the coast of the Pacific. These observations were sufficient to remove the im- pression which at one time prevailed that America pre- sented an unbroken continent stretching towards the pole ; and the proofs of an ocean bounding it at no very high latitude, gave again some probability to the existence of a passage to India by this route. The British go- vernment, therefore, after the close of the European war in 1815, engaged in a series of spirited attempts which had this object in view. Captain Parry succes- sively penetrated into the Polar Sea, and discovered a range of large islands, to the south of which were exten- sive coasts, of which he could not perceive the bound- ary. Captain Ross, in an adventurous voyage fitted out by himself and his friends, ascertained that these coasts belong to a large peninsula named by him Boothia, and which terminates to the south in a narrow isthmus, connecting it apparently with the continent; though there has since appeared room to suspect that the whole may compose one large island. Captain Parry, in an- other voyage, explored the northern shores of Hudson's Bay, and discovered the strait of the Fury and Hecla, leading thence into the Arctic Ocean. Meantime, Captain Franklin and Dr Richardson, in two land journeys chequered by interesting events, examined a large extent of the northern coast, including the whole of that be- tween t


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